Decide mobile tower issue in 2 months, IMC told

The high court directed Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) to act according to law within two months, while disposing a petition filed against installation of a 4G mobile tower in a residential area.

TNN

September 07, 2019, 09:23 IST

INDORE: The high court directed Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) to act according to law within two months, while disposing a petition filed against installation of a 4Gmobile tower in a residential area.

The petition against the mobile tower in Ward 78 of Bijalpur was filed by Makhan Choudhary before division bench of Justice SC Sharma and Justice Shailendra Shukla.

The petitioner’s counsel Gaurav Panchal said the tower was installed in a densely populated area which is near to a government girls secondary school and aganwadi.

It is against MP Land Development Regulations, 2012 which prohibits installation of towers in residential areas, argued Panchal. He also told the court that IMC, while replying to an RTI application filed to seek information about permission for tower installation, had revealed that no documents related to the tower were found in the records.

The IMC didn’t act even after Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board asked the commissioner to remove or shift the tower from the residential area on the complaint filed by the petitioner, Panchal said.

The bench, after hearing the arguments of both the parties, disposed the petition with a direction, “The permission to install mobile tower was given by the corporation and as the petitioner has already submitted an application to the IMC commissioner, it shall be decided in accordance with law within two months.”

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